Posted on Jul 19, 2017
"Lightning War": The Father of the Nazi Blitzkrieg
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This is an extremely informative article with pictures on the life of Heinz Guderian. He was the German general who developed the concept of Blitzkrieg. His rise through the ranks was rapid and had early success as a commander in France and Russia. However, he soon fell into disfavor with Hitler because he was prone to speak his mind and did a tactical retreat from Moscow to save his army. He never commanded troops again though he did return as a staff officer. After the war he was released and was instrumental in forming the Bundeswehr.
"Lightning War": The Father of the Nazi Blitzkrieg
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Thanks SGT (Join to see). For anybody interested in the man who developed the Blitzkrieg and wanted to drive the British into the English Channel at Dunkirk, I highly recommend his autobiography Panzer Leader by Generaloberst Heinz Guderian
I first read it when I was about 10-years-old many years ago.
Colonel General Guderian was an early combined arms advocate - armor, mechanized infantry, airborne and aviation ground attack and bombers with self propelled artillery.
Another man I learned to admire as a youth was Erwin Rommel who was a brilliant and fearless soldier in WWI and WWII and ended up being allowed to commit suicide under pressure because he was involved in the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Hitler as decorated and disabled war-hero Claus von Stauffenberg brought a bomb in a briefcase and attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside the Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia.
Rommel's' Attacks includes a section on operations in the Italian Alps in WWI which shows how infantry could be used in what would be Blitzkrieg.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown CW5 (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright LTC Bill Koski LTC Wayne Brandon PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
I first read it when I was about 10-years-old many years ago.
Colonel General Guderian was an early combined arms advocate - armor, mechanized infantry, airborne and aviation ground attack and bombers with self propelled artillery.
Another man I learned to admire as a youth was Erwin Rommel who was a brilliant and fearless soldier in WWI and WWII and ended up being allowed to commit suicide under pressure because he was involved in the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Hitler as decorated and disabled war-hero Claus von Stauffenberg brought a bomb in a briefcase and attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside the Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia.
Rommel's' Attacks includes a section on operations in the Italian Alps in WWI which shows how infantry could be used in what would be Blitzkrieg.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown CW5 (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright LTC Bill Koski LTC Wayne Brandon PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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SSgt Robert Marx
I have my copy of Gen. Guderian's autobiography and I read it sometime in high school. No one could accuse him of being an egoist for he had that market cornered. I find it interesting that as the German high command was working the kinks out of combined arms exercises in the steppes of the Soviet Union in the 1920's that Maj Eisenhower and Col. Patton were working out similar findings while serving in the 7th Calvary. They actually tore apart and reassembled an early American type of tank which undoubtedly held French designs in its working areas in Ike's garage while their ladies gossiped on a leisure Sunday.
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Agreed. Enjoyed reading about him when I was working on my thesis in college.
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